From: Adam Thompson <athompso@athompso.net>
Reply-To: Continuation of Round Table discussion <roundtable@muug.mb.ca>
Date: Thursday, 11 June, 2015 1:29 PM
To: MUUG Roundtable <roundtable@muug.mb.ca>
Subject: Re: [RndTbl] leasing storage on-site

No-one local that I know of, no.

I can’t even think of anyone who’d be able to do that for you… the leasing costs would almost be as much as the purchase cost!

Do you need SAS, FC, iSCSI, NFS, SMB, or what? That makes a difference.

The problem is that even dedicated storage vendors don’t have gear like that sitting ready to go even for resale, never mind leasing… the NPV (or depreciation, if you prefer) curve on storage is far too extreme to take that chance.

How short is short-term?

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-Adam Thompson
athompso@athompso.net
Cell: +1 204 291-7950
Fax: +1 204 489-6515

From: Grigory Shamov
Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2015 13:29
To: MUUG Roundtable

Hi All,

Do you know if it is possible to short-term lease storage on-site, in
Winnipeg? Like having someone to bring in an appliance (about 100TB
capacity) with a decent connection (10GigE at least) to attach directly to
a system, for a short time.

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Grigory Shamov

Westgrid/ComputeCanada Site Lead
University of Manitoba
E2-588 EITC Building,
(204) 474-9625

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